[manigandham]

> prefer the smarts at the edges of your system

That's exactly what reverse proxies do - leaving the internal apps free to just serve requests instead of worrying about the perimeter.

The problems described in this article have nothing to do with reverse proxies but rather the ingress controller and config settings.

[fulafel]

Reverse proxies making routing decisions based on request content and making server load balancing decisions is putting policy in the middle.